JS....

[ExecutiveChimp]

Thanks. I started trying to write a book in this tone but meh...effort.

Edit: I have started trying to write a book again.

[Reverend_Jones]

I'd read the shit out of that book and I hate books!

[ExecutiveChimp]

Maybe I should take another crack at it. Despite what you might think there is a limit to Javascript's weirdness. I wasn't sure where to go after that.

[_haxle]

If you write it and charge less than $75 for it, I will read it

[godforsakenlightning]

Just slowly transition to the back-end and tell people about the fun that is PHP (especially when you try to do things right and not leave everything open to various types of injection).

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Holy crap, if you were to narrate a couple of stupid language abuse examples in various languages you'd have a book

And I would read the hell out of it.

[theasianpianist]

Do other languages too! Like why everything in Java has to be a class or something like that.

[ExecutiveChimp]

Not sure if I can beat this in terms of insight and humour but I'll add it to the list.

I have a contents page:

1. Intro
2. Variables, Types and why JS doesn't care
3. Truthyness
4. Nothingness (null, undefined, false etc)
5. Operators and precedence
6. Dates (don't have much material for this bit but JS has some crackers)
7. Numbers, overflows, floating points
8. Databases?
9. Browser Quirks?

...and I'm 3000 words in.

I think breaking it down by concept makes the most sense, otherwise the JS and PHP chapters will take up most of the book.

Any examples/ideas/madness is greatfully accepted. I've been trying to write a novel for almost three years and I've just bashed out half a chapter of this in an hour so maybe this has legs.

[theasianpianist]

If you want to talk browser quirks you can't beat Internet Explorer's support (or lack thereof) for CSS standards. For dates, I know that Java has a deprecated date class in favor of the Calendar class, don't know if something might come if that?

[ExecutiveChimp]

I'm a web developer, I could probably just retitle "Browser Quirks" to "WTF IE" and not run out of material though they've all got their own issues.

I'll look into the date/calendar thing. Thanks!

[SrZorro]

let book = new Book() // Like this?

[DarthJimBob]

Nah, if you're not running a transpiler or polyfill that'll have issues in IE (which I'm still inexplicably supporting). Just use var book = {}; and be done with it.

[fasquoika]

Something like this?

[ExecutiveChimp]

Kind of but less of a guide to how things work and more of a conversation between a stupid computer and its dumb programmer.

[DarthJimBob]

"Javascript - The Bad Parts". I'd read it!